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Table salt often contains iodine which will alter the flavor. The reason to grind your own salt is to get it at the right size.
You need iodine.
From salt? Don't I get iodine from my food?
Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
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Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#302Prozac, Lipitor, and Flonase are also PFAS used in the body.
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You can do this with brown paper lunch bags. Put some popcorn in a bag, fold the top so that it doesn't open when it expands, and hit the popcorn button.
Most likely all of these alternatives contain PFAS as well, except for putting them in the good 'ol kettle on the stove. Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/science-technology/paper-b...
I think that only applies to variations of “non stick” or grease repellant paper bags, which is often used by fast food joints to avoid the food sticking to the paper.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#304Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup. Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts). Cover the bottom with kernels. Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged. Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water. Once popping slows,…
Our recipe:
* 3 tablespoons bacon grease * 1/2 cup popcorn kernels
Put the bacon grease in a large pot and add three kernels of popcorn. Heat it on half heat (5 on a gas burner, anyway) until the three kernels all pop -- this will usually be the point at which smoke from the grease is accumulating in the pot (if you have a large lid you can watch). Once the three pop, dump the rest in. Scoot the pot vigorously back and forth on the stove to shake the unpopped kernels to the bottom. Turn off the heat when the popping stops.
Pour in a bowl and salt to taste. No butter required. As above, you get almost no unpopped kernels this way!
We use "rainbow popcorn," which is multi-color and we think tastes better. It doesn't pop as big as the regular yellow kind.
I'll have to try the paper towel trick, especially with the smaller pot I sometimes use.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
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It’s hard to blame it all on one class. Littering was a social norm when these chemicals were invented. Even today, most Americans eat meat from factory farms, drive gas powered cars, and throw most trash in a landfill. Problems that will have to eventually be fixed. If you’re born into this kind of society are you going to handicap yourself by holding yourself to a stricter set of rules than everyone else? The ‘yes’…
> throw most trash in a landfill. Is this some stranhe double-hypocracy? If 3M put their crap is a properly contained landfill, millions of people wouldn't be poisoned! 'Sins of the consumer' is a toxic ideology!
If you want to be proactive about problems you need the political will to create and enforce rules. But nobody votes for rules that make people’s lives worse now, but future generations lives better. You can’t just blame rich people for that.
The political will didn’t exist for pfas back then, and it doesn’t exist for things like water scarcity, or antibiotic resistance, or e-waste today.
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He could get commission from any sales in the next 30 days not just this 11$ product
30 days?! That seems shockingly generous for Amazon. What happens when someone has a handful of overlapping affiliate clicks? Do the referrers all split the pool or most-recent wins?
last click wins.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#307Recently my wife and I searched for a drinking water filter that would remove PFAS. We found one! https://www.clearlyfiltered.com/pages/performance-data-for-t...
It removes flouride as well, for better or worse -- one of very few available filters which do. (Some think flouride is good and some think it's bad.) I have it, and purely ergonomically, it's the best filter I've ever used. It's also quite expensive with expensive filters that need replacing frequently.
Seems like it needs to be replaced every 4-5 months which is longer than my Brita which needs to be replaced every 3 months
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> Yes it does and it all adds up. No, it doesn't, because sodium ferrocyanide is poorly absorbed in the first place and not bioaccumulative in humans. I suppose you also don't each spinach or almonds either?
"spinach" nope and of almonds not too many either. But my point is, sodium ferrocyanide intake is not beneficial, (unlike ordinary sodium). Even if it might do no harm, why should I risk even little harm? And with adding up, well there is a whole libary of other toxic or potentially toxic additives in the normal food you can buy. I prefer to minimize the potential bad intake, that's all.
Also watch out for the arsenic in rice.
Some people don't each rice for this reason, but I just eat around it.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#309Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood. Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm on par with CFCs and leaded gasoline, with complete regulatory impunity. At some point the ICC needs to extend the crimes against humanity/nature to something like crimes against Human H…
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I've asked my mother the exact same question a couple of weeks ago. She said, that as salt is hygroscopic "table salt" comes with anti-cacking agents. Salt which comes as larger crystals doesn't need them.
That’s not enough to justify the grinder. Buy a box of Diamond Crystal Kosher salt. It has the perfect texture for keeping in a salter on the counter so it’s easy to grab a pinch.
kosher salt is way too coarse for popcorn, so I don't think it eliminates the need for the grinder